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Can anyone help me identify this tree behind me?

8 years ago

Took the pictures back in March.

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chambers1589

8 years ago

You guys are not particularly helpful. Or nice.

My best guess, and this is only a guess, would be that it's a maple tree. In the second picture, to the right of your ear, there's a scale of bark separating from the top side that looks thin (which can make climbing hard). When a scale of maple bark separates it can be relatively thin like that, whereas other common trees, oak or walnut, usually have thicker, bark that doesn't scale as much. On the flip side, it doesn't look as scaly as I would expect from say cherry.

Without more info I'd guess maple.

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gardengal48 (PNW Z8/9)
8 years ago
Since all that can be seen of the tree is a just a small amount of bark and that isn't very distinctive, any guesses would be just that - a guess. Need something more.
viper114
8 years ago
kind of looks like hickory.....
Donna Labor thanked viper114
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Donna Labor
Original Author
8 years ago
Yeah. I don't have anything else though.
ken_adrian Adrian MI cold Z5
8 years ago
look maple to me

or oak ...

or hell i dont know ...

where is it

ken
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jalcon
8 years ago
Hey guys can anyone tell me what kind of car this is?
tlbean2004
8 years ago
lol
wisconsitom
8 years ago
Can anyone please diagram the following sentence: What the hell?

+oM
Huggorm
8 years ago
jalcon: Hey guys can anyone tell me what kind of car this is?

Yes sir, that's an audi A8 door handle. Can't identify the tree though.
jalcon
8 years ago
Huggorm, if you did that without tineye or google reverse image search, that's pretty impressive, lol.
floral_uk z.8/9 SW UK
8 years ago
OP - can you remember if it was a conifer or not? i.e. a tree with needles or a tree with regular leaves? And where was it growing?
Donna Labor thanked floral_uk z.8/9 SW UK
Donna Labor
Original Author
8 years ago
It had regular leaves. Southern California.
Embothrium
8 years ago
Keep talking, the more descriptive information you come up with the greater the possibility of getting a useful answer.
wisconsitom
8 years ago
Oh....regular leaves, got it!

+oM
jalcon
8 years ago
Guys can anyone help me identify this butterfly? Sorry only pic I have my phone was zoomed in my accident...
gardengal48 (PNW Z8/9)
8 years ago
I'm not at all convinced that this is a serious request for an ID. I think someone's playing us :-)
Embothrium
8 years ago
Yes, the coy posing in front of the tree certainly creates that impression.
RugbyHukr
8 years ago
My first take was maple, also. The only maples I have seen in SoCal (not counting Acer palmatum cultivars) are Acer saccharinum & Acer negundo var. californicum. Only the Acer saccharinum has bark like that.
Donna Labor thanked RugbyHukr

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